The US State Department has announced that they are cutting some 60% of their staff from the US Embassy in Cuba and suspending all diplomatic services in the country. They will also be severely curtailing travel to the island, restricting it to a few specific officials.
Officials are citing “health attacks” against Americans on the island, and demanding Cuba assure the safety of US citizens. This is being done despite the White House conceding that the Cuban government is not behind these attacks.
President Trump has been eager to roll back US relations with Cuba, which were reestablished in a limited fashion by President Obama after generations of acrimony. It appears the “attacks,” despite officials admitting they aren’t the Cuban government’s fault and despite apparently not having a good idea what they actually are, has become an after-the-fact excuse for continuing down that road.
Now, the only Americans legally allowed to travel to the island are those specifically involved in the investigation. Officials are citing “security concerns,” but in practice this is likely more about keeping control of the narrative on why US-Cuba relations are once again heading south.
Just another Lusitania.
More like the battleship Maine.
“This is being done despite the White House conceding that the Cuban government is not behind these attacks”
It wasn’t them, my bet is on the US.
For all we know, it could be some of Little Marco’s constituents in Miami — friends of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles — in league with renegade elements of the CIA, seeking to derail US-Cuban detente. Makes as much sense, anyway, as blaming Putin.
In my opinion…The shut down occurred for one reason and one reason only…according to Vice News #63 or #67 (somewhere in there) Cuba seems to have a cure for cancer…they showed several people that were cured from certain death…had a US doctor from Buffalo talking about it and showing x-rays of un-treatable cancer in a patient 10 years after she should have been dead…
So I believe that cancer is such a big business here in the states that the thought of an actual cure freaked out the greedy people that talk about curing cancer with no thought of ever doing that…having football players running around in pink shoes, and everyone wearing pike ribbons…had a canary and had Adolph Trump shut down any connection with Cuba so no one would ever know about it…when that Vice piece came out two weeks later we could not go to Cuba…not sure what that says about this country…but it ain’t good!!!